I can't believe it is already time to start switching my brain from thinking "vacation" to thinking "school". I have been staying up late and sleeping in. Now, I'll have to adjust back to going to bed early an getting up early. *sigh*

I finally completed my snowman packet :

I have a freebie from this packet mentioned further down in this post and you can check the whole packet out in my TpT store by clicking on the link below:

I have been trying to come up with some activities for a few of my students who need more fine motor practice. I have been researching this topic a little since I seem to be having more and more kiddos who do not have age appropriate fine motor development. One theory suggests that babies are not getting enough "tummy time" due to the fear of SIDS. Whatever the reason, it is something I need to address in my classroom.

Since I will be doing my snowman unit when we go back on Monday, I decided to focus this little activity with digraph ow (long o sound).

Students will use tweezers to pick up foam pieces with blends on them and place them on the magnet beside digraph ow. They will then blend and read the word and then record it on their recording sheet.

If you want to make something similiar to this, then you will need these items:

I was so suprised when I logged onto my blog this morning and found that I had been nominated for the Liebster Blog award by Johanna Tackitt over at Fanatically First Grade . What a sweet little suprise to make my day! Thank you so much Johanna!

The goal of this award is to spotlight up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers.

(That is definately me!)
Kind of awesome!
The rules are:

{1} Copy and paste the award on your blog.

{2} Thank the giver and link back to them.

3} Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

I would like to share 5 up-and-coming blogs that I follow who have under 200 followers.